Panchayat Justice: An Indian Experiment in Legal Access' in M. Cappelletti and B. Garth (eds.), Access to Justice: Vol. III: Emerging Issues and Perspectives (Milan: Guiffre; Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff and Noordhoff, 1979) pp. 341-386
Abstract
India's massive attempt to provide access to justice for hundreds of millions of villagers through the promotion of Nyaya Panchayats (village courts) is theoretically provocative as well as theoretically important. Yet it remains virtually unexamined in India as well as unknown abroad.